The Tuesday where really I have no clue what day it is

 Hi,

What on earth did I do yesterday?  Well, I pretty much only stayed at home and worked from there.  So busy in meetings too.

Mike headed out at 5pm on a bus (I am sure he zapped the covid app) for his tramping presentation at The George.

Tessa, Toby and I had dinner and ten around 8.15pm I drove Tessa home.  We checked in with Mike to see if he wanted a lift on our way.

Moxley sleeping in her crate during the day

He did.  But he was being interviewed after his presentation and could we wait 15 more mins?  

Wait, what?  Interviewed?

Okay - we said we would drop Tessa off and come back for him.

Although the conversation was a lot funnier than that.  Toby was talking into the new blue tooth device that we use in the Subaru for our music.  And he was talking loudly into the bits of plastic - but really rather muffled (as happens when you stick plastic up at your mouth).  Mike was talking in the ether in the car, but softly, over his phone.

I got the giggles.

Mike with his new blanket

Anyway, we dropped Tessa off and came back to Boulcott St and collected Mike.  He had scored a gift from the session.  At home, he unpacked it.  We now have a lot of Kronenbourg merch.

Socks.  4 pairs!

Off to bed and slept so well.  No puking cat.  Yay.

Up for work at home again.  I made brekkie.

Brekkie this morning

Wellington is turning on the weather.  Wow!

Home made iced latte

And Wellington has a cracker of a day today.  Woot!

Have an awesome day.

Love,

Angela

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Tues Sept 15

Toby @ school

Tessa at our house

Mike on some bus ~ 5.15pm

Mike @ The George 5.30 - 8.30pm

The weekend in Blenheim

 Hi,

What an awesome weekend.  Started off in fine form with brekkie with James, Celia and Ed at Little Peckish on Friday morning.  I was in the mood to talk and after we'd caught up on each other's news, politics became a topic of conversation.  Heheh.  Looking forward to our next brekkie date hot on the heels of the election.

I met Iona and Col at 12.50pm (their ferry was supposed to get in at 11.30am but it was so rough in the Strait that it took them ages to get here.  Lots of puking from passengers.  Not good, not fun) and we ate at the Z cafe.  Sandwich for me and Col (yes, I was surprised she wanted to eat too).  A hot choc for me and coffees for them.  Then they were off in the orange car (I had parked under work).

Mike left for his bottling with Andrew in the Subaru and I went to Dockside with Ange, Angie, Juliet and Nick for a drink and some chips.  Then Ange and I Ubered home.

Friday morning Little Peckish brekkie

Moxley helps me pack

After I got home I packed for my weekend.  Managed to squash things into my backpack.  Mike got up early to take me to the ferry terminal for a 7am check in Saturday morning.

Level 2 restrictions still in place so the ferry was only half full but people had to spread out.

Wow - Saturday dawns looking gorgeous

Got my boarding pass

I was at a table seat with 6 seats.  But a young couple asked me if they could sit at the other end ont he other side.  I said yes.  But then they sniffed and blew their noses for the rest of the journey over.  And I was like:  gah!

The crossing was superb.  Not a breath of wind.  So different from the day before for Iona and Col.

We arrived 20 mins late (we were late leaving Wellington) into Picton.  Walked down to the car ramp and walked to a bus where they drove us to the ferry terminal building.

Found Iona and Col's car parked just up the road a tad and headed into Blenheim.  Sue was at their house doing her washing.  We then headed to the rugby after some toast for me.

Found the rugby and Sue

So under level 2, there are no spectators allowed at the games.  There is a stop bank at the end of the ground here in Blenheim, so Sue took me in there.  The grounds staff had fenced off the ground, but there was no one around.  So we sat on the grass just outside the fence and watched from there.  

The day was stunning still and despite losing track of the score for the one-sided game (Wellington won 58 to 0 or something) it was a great time.

First of many for the weekend.

Headed to get an iced coffee before going back and watching movies for the evening.  Via PaknSave to get some junk food and dinner.

Sue headed home and I went to bed and read before having the best sleep!  :-)  Up at 7am without an alarm - so obviously had the right amount of sleep.

Not quite as nice a day on Sunday.  Sue came around and we headed to City Fitness.  We were there from 10.50am to 12.25pm.  Awesome session.  Thanks Sue!

Another one

OMG.  This was called Summer Brown.

Looks like it will do the trick

Sip!

Went to Ritual Cafe and enjoyed an awesome lunch and two iced coffees.  Mmmmmm.

Drove out to find an ostrich - yes - you read that right.  And the place where the first flight across the Cook strait left from.

Me!  I am the historic place

No - it's this.  The site of the runway for the first Cook Strait flight

Back to Iona and Col's house and another couple of movies.  Dinner.  And Sue headed back to her place and I had an early night.  Up early 5.30am to get ready for my ferry back.

Drove to Picton and parked exactly where Iona and Col had left the car on Friday.  Stood 2m back from the woman behind the check in counter (they had a barrier up so you couldn't actually approach the counter at all).

Monday morning back on the ferry

Got on quickly (far less people today than Saturday) and found a table seat for four and plonked myself there for the duration.

The ferry left 20 mins early!  Woot!

Physical distancing in place

Face mask on when in the ferry and buses

Found Iona and Col at the terminal in Wellington, exchanged keys and I headed home for my meetings for the afternoon.

Monday afternoon and Moxley is chilling in her crate

Sorted out tea after work and had a great sleep.  Apart from just after midnight when Mike flew out of the bed, swearing loudly.  Turns out Moxley had just puked on the duvet.  Stripped it off and out the wash on.  Crawled back to bed.  Asleep again in seconds.

Up for PT with Quentin.  Loved the pics Quentin posted in our chat of him and Mike during the "cobra" pose.  I thought he said "coma" pose.  Which at the time, Mike was nailing perfectly.  Hahahah!

Great series of pics from this morning's PT session

And at work - but from home.  Yay.  Mike is presenting on tramping tonight after work in town somewhere.  He is so good.

Toby is at school.  He has completed his application for UC and a halls of residence.  Fingers crossed.

Enjoy your day.

Love,

Angela

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I did zap the app many times over the weekend.

The Thursday with more Mittens

 Hi,

It was a busy but good day yesterday.  Crazy work stuff but interspersed with checking out the Mittens exhibition and having fun with Chris with iced lattes from the cafe at work.

Mojo iced latte with Angie

Mittens exhibit

Went to the Mittens exhibit with Juliet, Barb and Angie and enjoyed wandering around there for a bit at lunch time.  Grabbed some sushi and we ate outside before heading back to tackle the afternoon workload.

Fine looking cat

A short film about Mittens

Iced latte with Chris

Chris and I went hunting in the cafe (it was closed) for things to get us through the last wee bit of work.  We found a can of iced latte and I found chocolate.  We paid (honesty EFTPos) and I felt slightly ill after consuming it.

Mike came to collect me from work as it was hosing down rain.  And we threw Chris's bike on the back and took him home too.

Mike happy with his Mittens mug

More rain here today.  Iona and Col are coming over for the great weekend logistics exercise.  Woot!

They get our car when they arrive - which I just drove into work.

I go over on the ferry tomorrow and get their car.  

Monday we do it again - but in opposite.

:-)

Fun!

Have an awesome weekend.

Love,

Angela

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Fri Sept 11

Angela @ BP Taranaki

Angela @ work

Angela @ Little Peckish with James

The Wednesday with Toby exams

 Hi,

This new interface for Blogger is a bit of a pain.  If I don't put the pics in with the correct order, I can't move them into place easily.  The captions get orphaned.  Very weird.

I did however find a way to send pics from other channels to Google Photos.  So I found the one of Mike last week with Mittens.  Mike looks so happy.

Mike with
Mittens last week
 

The Lab with Andrew XXCV yesterday

Yesterday morning I met Andrew at The Lab on Customhouse Quay.  I quite enjoyed that iced latte - no sugar.  Lucky Andrew pinged me to check which Lab I was at, because he was on his way to Victoria St.

Also met Khemry for lunch at Arabica.  Yum!  She is busy at work and I caught up on her news and the news of the people she works with that I used to work with.  I am totally up-to-date now.

She has a new blog.  It's great.  Check it out if you get a moment.  Click here

My imaginary iced latte

My real iced latte

The food was good and Khemry was in fine form.  We laughed our way through our lunch.  Such a great break from work.  Khemry is the sort of person that makes you feel so much better for being in her company.

Back to work and away again at the end of the day.  Walked to Grant Road and Mike came and got me in the car.  

Toby's exams were good and not quite as good.  Sociology was good in the morning.  Stats wasn't quite as good in the afternoon.  But depending on Toby's mood, the Stats was either a 4 out of 5, or a 6 out of 10.

Sorted tea and had an early night.  But it wasn't the best of sleeps.  Up early to head to the gym.  But for the first time ever, my 6.16am bus didn't show up.  So weird.  Back home and had an online session with Quentin instead.

Good morning Wellington

Coffee for Mike

Meant I had more time to make coffee for Mike, hang out the washing and tidy the kitchen.  After the PT session I showered and caught a later bus.

At work today.  More lunch dates.  Hahahah.

Take care.  Have a great day.  No more exams this week for Toby.

Love,

Angela

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Wed Sept 9

Angela @ Arabica with Khemry 12 - 1pm

Thurs Sept 10

Angela on 13 bus at 7.51am

Angela @ work

Angela @ some Mittens exhibition at lunch time and lunch with Barb and Juliet

The Tuesday with exams for Toby

 Hi,

Toby got home from his morning exam yesterday in fine, fizzing form.  He said it went well.  And today (Wednesday) he has two exams back to back.  Sociology and Stats.  So fingers crossed once more for him.

My day was huge on the social front yesterday.  Team lunch at Papparich.  I must take Mike there one day for lunch and see what he thinks.  I also need to double check the menu as apparently I wrote down the wrong code for the iced coffee and ended up with  1) an iced mocha - with ice cream  and then 2) a hot coffee.

Not sure that I did get the code wrong.  But anyway...

Team lunch

After work I met up with Fran and Roz @ Charley Noble.  We had to wait for 40 mins for a table.  So we chatted away over a drink before settling in.

Elbow bump with Roz

Virgin mojito

Good food and the best company meant the night flew - and before I knew it, I was feeling sleepy and just knew it was past my bedtime.  Hahahah.

Everyone is well - Roz survived the AKL level 3 lockdown just fine.  We heard about Corey's OE plans that were hideously disrupted by covid.  Gah!  But he has picked up uni courses online and seems to be making the best of the change in circumstances.

Fran told me I have a typo in yesterday's post - so I will fix that now.  Bwhahahah.  Dinner with my editors is so hard.  :-p

And at the end, we all shared cat pics and vids.  Turns out we all have the cutest black cats.  :-)  I ubered home and fell into bed.

The Lab with Andrew - good iced latte

Toby and Tessa were up early this morning (Wed) to get ready for their exams today.  I wish them lots of luck.

I went into The Lab on Customhouse Quay to meet Andrew.  Gave him his credit card (he had it at the brewer and Mike picked it up for him last weekend).

And at work now and ready for the day.  Oosshh!

Hope your day is the best!

Love,

Angela

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Tues Sept 8

Angela @ Papparich 12 - 12.50pm  (Srcummies team lunch)

Angela @ Charley Noble 6.30pm - 8.30pm with Roz and Fran

Angela Uber home 8.30pm

Wed Sept 9

Angela on 13 bus @ 7am

Angela @ The Lab Customhouse Quay with Andrew 7.20 - 8.15

Angela @ work

The Monday back at work

 Hi,

I managed to get an iced latte date with Roanne in a spontaneous coming together of our work calendars really early yesterday.  Mojo does do a good coffee - but they were a bit amateurish with the iced latte yesterday.  They added normal granular sugar to my cold coffee.

High school chemistry suggests sugar won't dissolve in cold coffee easily.  So I crunched my way through the bottom of the drink.

:-p

Mojo iced latte with Roanne

In a huge highlight, I had lunch with Arthur at Machete.  He has moved here now and living in Lower Hutt (not too far from Mike's mother's house).  Yay for catching up with him yesterday and more frequently through the year.

Machete iced latte with Arthur

Sip!

After work I started walking home (to avoid peak hour on the buses) and Mike dashed down the hill in the car to collect me and we then tried to convince Smudge to get in her crate for a vet check up.  Moxley just walked into her crate.

The two cats are so funny.  Smudge hunkers down and hopes no one will notice her.  Moxley wants to say hello to everyone and explore.

Anyway.  They are both good.  They got dewormed and vaccinated and had a claw clip (I noticed them getting caught in things lately).  And we hope Moxley's ears may stay a little free from nicks for a week or so.  :-p  Moxley has a clicky knee and a wee heart murmur - but nothing too concerning.

Back home and had a great dinner (steak for the boys and eggs on a Buddha bowl for me).  Then off to bed.

Up early for boxing with Quentin.  And at work.

Toby has his History mock exam today - super important because if covid disrupts anything later on, this is what will count for his marks.

Good luck wee boy.

Love,

Angela

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Mon Sept 7

Angela @ Mojos waterfront with Roanne 8.15 - 8.43am

Angela @ Machete 12 - 12.50 with Arthur

Angela and Mike @ vet 1755 - 1825 with Smudge and Moxley, seeing Alistair

The weekend with no Toby

 Hi,

What a lovely weekend.  Toby was away in Chc with Tessa and her family so we had the place to ourselves.  A taste of next year, perhaps?  Gulp!

Lucky we like each other, eh?  Bwhahahahah!

My garden looks perfect for fairies

Moxley's fave things - a box and catnip!

Happy cat

After boot camp on Saturday (good sesh!) we did a few messages and then Mike popped into New World.  We had a relaxing afternoon before we went out to the Penthouse for dinner and to see Tenet.  

Date night @ The Penthouse to see Tenet

Such a confusing movie.  I guess some people might like to imagine it is clever.  But I think it would alienate a lot of the audience as you spend a lot of time (hah!) being confused.

Late to bed - but it isn't a school night so all good.  Sunday was Father's Day and after sending a text to Dad (which he didn't get until 10pm at night!!) I got up and made brekkie for Mike.  Toby was still in Chc so the father pampering fell to me.  

Mike deserves it.  He is an awesome dad.

Fathers Day brekkie of champions

Is this a happy father?

I discovered some of the women's rugby was live streaming on You Tube.  Choice!  So I watched the Whios get thrashed by Auckland Storm.  I do enjoy women's rugby.  They pass the ball a lot.  Good running rugby.

Taranaki Whio game is live streamed on YouTube!

An uneasy alliance to get access to the deck

Headed out to pick up Toby and Tessa from the airport and back home to have dinner - after dropping Tessa home.  Her Dad was stuck in Chc after no showing his flight down there and Air NZ cancelled his flight back as a part of the same there-and-back.  So when he turned up at the airport, he had no flight home.  Lucky he got onto one Monday morning.

Mike made burgers for tea - scrumptious.  And Toby gave him his Fathers Day present. Tent pegs.  Oosshh.

Up early for me to see Quentin in the gym for the first time in ages.  Did bench.  37.5 kg.  Varying degrees of form.  Mainly bad.  Hahahah.

The mask I wore on the bus gave me mask face dents.  

Mask dents - does Batman have this issue?

It's a superhero issue I knew nothing about until covid.  Mask face dents.  It's a thing now.

Have a superb week.  Toby has mocks - which might not be so mock if covid means the big exams in November are disrupted.  So - good luck Toby!  Study hard.  Get those credits.  Oosshh!

Love,

Angela 

Love,

Angela

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Sat Sept 5h

Mike and Angela @ bootcamp 8.30 - 9.30

Mike and Angela @ Gotham 9.35 - 10.10

Mike and Angela @ Bivouac 10.15 am

Mike @ Occasional Brewer 

Okay - I forget everything but we did covid snap the app

Mike @ New World Thorndon. 11.20 - 12pm.  Angela there briefly to find the tahini.  I didn't - Mike found it just as I got there.  For everyone - it is next to the peanut butter.  Yeah - we don't get it either.

Angela & Mike @ Penthouse for dinner and movie.  6.30 - 10pm.  Tenet @ 8pm

Sunday Sept 6th

Angela @ airport to pick up Toby and Tessa (didn;t get out of the car) 1600

Angela, Toby and Tessa @ Kathmandu Lyall Bay 1625

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